Software Engineer, AI Native Authoring
Snowflake is hiring a Software Engineer, AI Native Authoring in Toronto, Canada. It pays CAD 176k-CAD 226k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Snowflake.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this software engineer role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Golang, Python and TypeScript.
- Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
- Level lists 353 other open roles at Snowflake.
AI in this role
Build AI-native authoring interfaces, secure container runtimes, and notebook service backends for data scientists and developers on Snowflake.
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Join the AI-Native Authoring team and help shape how data scientists, analysts, engineers, and AI developers build on Snowflake. From SQL to python, and from Workspaces to our VS Code extension, our team owns the highest impact workloads and surfaces across Snowflake. We even own Snowflake Notebooks end to end, including the notebook service backend, container runtimes, and interactive, Jupyter-based experience our customers work in every day.
Our team is at the center of delivering a profound AI and application-development platform, delivering secure, reliable, reproducible compute environments with a delightful and intuitive editing experience layered on top. These serve all of our customers, including our most critical security-sensitive customers running in regulated and air-gapped deployments.
If you're excited by deep backend systems and delivering polished customer-facing experiences across the full stack, we invite you to be part of our team's success story.
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER YOU WILL:
Drive high-impact initiatives that span our product areas and full tech stack, including golang and Python on the backend and TypeScript/React on the frontend.
Own and deliver features across the notebook service, container runtimes, and UI — designing and shipping medium-to-large projects independently, from ambiguous problem statements through production and post-launch.
Advance core platform initiatives such as runtime management and patching, environment reproducibility and replication, security and compliance, and observability for notebooks.
Extend the product to operate reliably in regulated and air-gapped environments, where security, compliance, and operational rigor are paramount.
Promote strong collaboration within a cross-functional team and partner closely with embedded product managers and designers, as well as platform organizations across Snowflake
Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
Build for scale, reliability, and high performance, and participate in the on-call rotation to keep a Tier-1 production service healthy.
Collaborate with team members and raise the engineering bar through high-quality design and code review.
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
4+ years of hands-on software development experience, including significant experience in full-stack software development.
Deep understanding of modern web application architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance, and scale.
Experience with backend services and distributed systems; familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure is a strong plus.
Experience building for regulated, compliance-driven, or air-gapped environments is a strong plus.
Knowledge of database internals and SQL is a plus.
Passionate about building the best customer-facing products.
Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills, with a proactive, transparent working style.
BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
How we rate this
Software Engineer, AI Native Authoring at Snowflake rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where full stack was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where container runtimes was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where notebooks was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where backend systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Golang in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Full Stack, Container Runtimes, Notebooks, Backend Systems, and Golang. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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